The 645 format is quite different, the photos taken with them have a different feel to the depth in the photo. That simply comes with the size of the sensor and camera.

The cameras will actually be world apart because the target group that will use the 645D is different. I don't think you will see sport photographers for example trade in their 135 camera for one, for in the studio or landscape the 645D would certainly be an attractive alternative then a high-end 135.

Sorry Gary too late to go into everything.

Pentax is of course promoting their camera on their own site so you won't find anything negative about it and they try to highlight everything that's good about it or try to make it look good, every company does that right?

Pentax seems to be clearly aiming at the 135 market share too pull them over and I don't blame them since the price of the body comes near enough to compete with the high end of that market. I wonder if they can win some souls.

About the sensor.
The 645D use a cropped sensor actually it isn't a full frame 645 format sensor.
The pixels are 6µm that's almost the same as the K10D with his 6.05µm but I believe you can't compare them like for like because of the format difference. But well you can say you could crop the 645D to 10mp so 25% and have the same IQ as the K10D so 4 times the IQ of the K10D. It does make sense but I doubt you can calculate like that, does anyone know?

About the camera.
The Sensor is from Kodak and they aren't new to DMF, Pentax isn't new to MF bodies and they seem to have copied most of the hardware of the K7 so all in all Pentax isn't busy being innovating.
However strangely enough since they copied most of the hardware in the K7 and his feature it becomes as a new thing really on the DMF market since it has things you won't see on those cameras, is it a good or bad thing... I don't know but they might be filling a need since Pentax seems to be clearing the gap between 645 and 135 cameras, it would be interesting to see if there is a market for it.

I haven't read all of it so can't comment on it fully but it indeed seems good so far.

One question for the K7 user can you do this?
Its sophisticated autofocus system has 11 sensor points (with nine cross-type sensors positioned in the middle) to assure extra-accurate focusing on the subject. The number of sensor points can be changed to three or five

Just read a funny article about how Steve has dropped iMac for his new playing thing the iPad. It came from that there was no talk about the iMac on the World Wide Developers Conference and that he only talked about the iPad and the new iPhone 4.

It's of course intended as a joke but lets take it serious, if iPad would come from his starting block and grow to be more powerful and able to run heavier apps, it could become a competition for the iMac and PC market.
Do you think Apple might drop his iMac series if the iOS products can satisfy most users needs?

Gefeliciteerd James

I think you're lucky link

And a new critical article about the matter:
How many American jobs will Steve Jobs destroy?

The Japanese website is now translate to English, don't know if this has been posted before or not.

http://www.pentax.jp/english/imaging/digital/medium/645d/feature_1.html

Thank you Gwyn then I ain't the only one.
I only got back one reply once from them

Do you know if the office in Germany is something?
For us it doesn't really matter because for repairs we also need to send it to Belgium so if Germany is more helpful I'll rather send it to them.

A tip for next time it happens.
You can save the action of cleaning the dirt and apply it to all photos after it if off course the dirt doesn't move around.